1. Historical Understandings
Latin America
Historical Understandings

2. CUBAN REVOLUTION

3. The dictator of Cuba until 1959

4. Fulgencio Batista.

5. led a group of rebels against Batista’s government.
Dictator in Cuba from 1959 to 2008

6. Fidel Castro

7. prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59) who went on to become a guerrilla leader in South America.
Executed by the Bolivian army in 1967, he has since been regarded as a martyred hero by generations of leftists worldwide.
image remains a prevalent icon of leftist radicalism and anti-imperialism.

8. CHE GUEVARA

9. The plan was to arm Cuban exiles living in Florida.
Once the exiles arrived in Cuba, unhappy Cubans would join them at the Bay of Pigs and overthrow Castro.
Failed overthrown of Castro

10. Cuba: Bay of Pigs

11. In October of 1962, US planes spotted secret Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
President Kennedy agreed not to invade Cuba and to remove US missiles from Turkey; in return, Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba.

12. Cuban Missile Crisis

13. Cuban communist leader from 2008 till present

14. Raul Castro

15.
poor mestizo sharecropper
hero in the Mexican revolution of
demanded justice for the indigenous people of Mexico

16. Emiliano Zapata

17. sudden, unexpected acts carried about by groups that fight using “hit and run” tactics

18. Guerrilla Warfare?

19. 1994—North American Free Trade Agreement came into effect & allowed free trade between US, Canada, & Mexico
Some people in Mexico did not like this plan:

20. NAFTA
North American Fair Trade Agreement